Ethel Duffy Turner
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Ethel Evelyn Duffy Turner (1885 San Pablo – 1969 Cuernavaca) was an American journalist and writer. She was a witness to the events of the Mexican Revolution.[1] She is known for her book Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Liberal Party.[2]
Career
[edit]In 1909, she wrote for The Border, in Tucson, financed by Elizabeth Trowbridge. Under the guise of a magazine dedicated to the border culture of Arizona, it also campaigned in defense of the Mexican Liberal Party (PLM) members imprisoned in the United States.[1] It also campaigned against the social situation in Mexico during the regime. by Porfirio Díaz.
Duffy Turner was an anarchist.[3][4][5] She helped organize the Magonista party in Los Angeles. She knew Antonio Villa-Real, Librado Rivera. Magonist meetings were held at the Turners' own Los Angeles apartment. She edited the Regeneration English pages.[2]
Her papers are held at the University of California, Berkeley.[6]
Personal life
[edit]She married John Kenneth Turner in 1905 in Fresno, CA. They met at the University of California, where Ethel was a 3rd year student, and John was a "special student". They had a daughter in 1909 named Juanita. Ethel and John divorced in 1917, and Ethel never remarried.
Works
[edit]- Ethel Duffy Turner; Eduardo Limón G Ricardo Flores Magón y el Partido Liberal Mexicano Morelia: Editorial Erandi del Gobierno del Estado, 1960
- Ethel Duffy Turner; Rey Devis Revolution in Baja California: Ricardo Flores Magon's High Noon Detroit, Mich. : Blaine Ethridge—Books, 1981. ISBN 9780879170783[7]
- Ethel Duffy Turner; One Way Ticket , Published by Smiths & Haas, January 1934
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Cor281 | Archivo Digital de Ricardo Flores Magón". Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ a b "DE ETHEL DUFFY TURNER SOBRE RICARDO FLORES MAGON - Proceso". Proceso. 1985-09-14. Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ Castañeda, Christopher J.; Feu, Montse, eds. (2019). Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. University of Illinois Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-252-05160-9. OCLC 1096530882.
- ^ Campbell, Russell; Porton, Richard (2009). Anarchist Film and Video. p. 124. ISBN 9781604860504.
Ethel Duffy (who remained involved with the Mexican anarchists all her life)
- ^ Swartz, Marc J.; Turner, Victor Witter; Tuden, Arthur (2017). Political Anthropology. ISBN 9780202367903.
- ^ "Ethel Duffy Turner papers, [ca. 1907-1969]". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ Blaisdell, Lowell L. (May 1982). "Rev. of Revolution in Baja California: Ricardo Flores Magón's High Noon". Hispanic American Historical Review. 62 (2): 292–293. doi:10.1215/00182168-62.2.292. ISSN 0018-2168.
External links
[edit]- Writers and Revolutionists: An Interview Conducted by Ruth Teiser, 1967
- Audio from oral history interview, 1966
- 1885 births
- 1969 deaths
- 20th-century American women journalists
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- American anarchists
- American women non-fiction writers
- Anarcho-communists
- American journalist, 19th-century birth stubs
- Anarchist stubs